Medieval Literature


Beowulf
The Canterbury Tales
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Song of Roland
The Lais of Marie de France
Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Arthurian Romances
Inferno
The Mabinogion
The Decameron
The History of the Kings of Britain
The Nibelungenlied
Troilus and Criseyde
Parzival
Christine de Pizan
In order to be disturbed less—since Mischance goes everywhere, and even though he may be ubiquitous—I have chosen as my sole joy (whatever joy someone else may have, this is mine): peace, voluntary solitude, and a secluded, solitary life.
Christine de Pizan, The Book of the Mutability of Fortune (Volume 52)

Hella S. Haasse
En la forest de Longue Attente chevauchant par divers sentiers m'en voys, ceste année présente où voyage de Desiriers. Devant sont aller mes fourriers pour appareiller mon logis en la Cité de Destinée. Et pout mon cœur et moy ont pris l'ostellerie de Pensée. Dedans mon livre de pensée j'ay trouvé escripvant mon cœur la vraie histoire de douleur de larmes toute enluminée. In het Woud van Lang Verwachten te paard op pad, dolenderwijs, zie ik mijzelf dit jaar bij machte tot Verlangens' verre reis ...more
Hella S. Haasse, In a Dark Wood Wandering: A Novel of the Middle Ages

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